Lolita and the Sexualization of Childhood by Meenakshi Gigi Durham
She’s an all-too-familiar figure in today’s media landscape: the baby-faced nymphet with the preternaturally voluptuous curves, the one whose scantily clad body gyrates in music videos, poses provocatively on teen magazine covers, and populates cinema and television screens around the globe. She’s become a fixture in Western pop culture: we all know her various incarnations, from Gidget to Miley Cyrus, from Brooke Shields’ child prostitute in Pretty Baby to Jon Benét Ramsey. She’s been ardently celebrated and stridently censured, and she serves as a symbolic flashpoint for raging debates about gender, sexuality, the definition of childhood, and the criteria for social standards of acceptability.
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